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Gabbettville, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Point census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30240. The Survey maps it on the Lanett North quadrangle.

Gabbettville within Troup County

On record in Gabbettville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

151 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 151 fires within 5 miles of Gabbettville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 446 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 10 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning89
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1997Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TROUP-006
4 September 1997Recreation and ceremony1.5 acresAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TROUP001
25 September 2008Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TROUP-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gabbettville: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Beryllium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Word ProspectBerylliumPast Producer
Rockford PlacerGoldPast Producer
Rockford PlacerGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Troup County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gabbettville in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGabbettville$2,000Two trees reported down on west point rd immediately south of the intersection with resource management dr.

Every storm recorded in Troup County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Long Cane0.9 miles15
Tyler Estates1.1 miles15
Cannonville2.1 miles15
Smoke Rise2.6 miles15
Maplecreek Hills3.0 miles15
Gray Hill3.0 miles15
Hogg Mountain3.0 miles15
North West Point3.2 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122542046The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331781. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.